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...single week. During the fiscal year that ended June 30, Harrah's hotels averaged a high 92% occupancy rate and net profit rose 25% from 1976 to a record $14.6 million on a 13.5% increase in revenues, which totaled $161.6 million. Unlike many casinos in Las Vegas that cater primarily to heavy-spending Eastern gamblers, Harrah's has boosted its earnings-an average of 19% a year, compounded, for more than two decades-mainly by mass-merchandising its casinos and shows. Last year it spent $36 million on promotion and brought in more than a quarter...
...often, says Harvard's Riesman, public schools cater to teen-agers desire "to be entertained." Consequently, homework and requirements have gone down, grades have gone up. Watered-down curriculums fail to challenge. "The only places in schools today where people are really encouraged to perform up to capacity are in sports and the band," says Riesman, adding that elitism is almost as dirty a word as sexism or racism " Back-to-basics proponents advocate tightening up the curriculum with more requirements and forcing all students to show minimal competency" in essential skills before graduating. So far, 26 states have passed...
Walking through Cambridge, visitors to this "college town" may get the impression that the people, buildings and stores all look alike. Harvard Square around 5 p.m. contains quite an assortment of individuals, but most have some academic affiliation. Whether it is the coffee shops that cater to students seeking a place to discuss their intellectual pursuits, the movie houses offering intellectual entertainment or flashers attmepting to expose themselves to unwitting Radcliffe women, everyone--or most everyone--appears to be seeking intellectual fulfillment...
Long is a pivotal figure in two pieces of legislation that may prove to be the most important of Jimmy Carter's first term in the White House: energy conservation and tax reform. Cater has delayed his tax package until next year so that the energy plan can be completed this session, but when the proposals do get to Congress, Long will probably have more to do with their final shape than any other legislator. Right now, as the Senate's spokesman in the Joint House-Senate Committee on Energy, he is at the center of the struggle to hammer...
...Liberty, for example, ends with the line, "Across the water, there was the mass of buildings on the battery, but the lady of liberty was something else." It is a long way from Emma Lazarus' New York to Howard Fast's Beverly Hills, where descendants of immigrants cater to huddled masses yearning for TV. -R.Z. Sheppard